Within the best episode ever of HBO’s Emmy-winning Final Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday night time, GWAR and Heavy ipromiseyoumedia had been each spotlighted because the host centered on the Trump administration’s resolution to chop funds from public media.
Roughly three-and-a-half minutes into the episode (watch bel0w), Oliver featured a clip from our current interview with Blöthar the Berserker. Within the clip, the GWAR front-thing talked concerning the virtues of public broadcasting, naming Sesame Road and Mr. Rogers as nationwide treasures.
After all, Oliver had some enjoyable with our interview, commenting, “It’s each stunning and complicated to observe [Blöthar] utter the phrases ‘Mr. Rogers,’ because it’s exhausting to think about them in the identical universe. Though, I’ll say, I might like to have seen GWAR on Mr. Rogers: ‘Blöthar, you might be particular simply the way in which you might be. Your diseased undercarriage composed of abscessed-riddled penises makes you YOU!’”
On the finish of the episode, Oliver launched an public sale to learn public media by way of the web site JohnOliversJunk.com, and among the many objects is a bidet signed by Blöthar, with the present highest bid as of this posting at $2,500.
An official description of the bidet reads: “Bidet signed by The Berserker Blothar from American heavy steel band GWAR. As mentioned on Final Week Tonight’s season 12 finale, Blothar is an enormous fan of public broadcasting greats reminiscent of Mr. Rogers and Sesame Road. Regardless of the way in which he seems to be. Bidet is a Kohler PureWash M300 mannequin with a chrome deal with, a quiet-close lid to forestall slamming, quick-release hinges for simple set up, and a self-cleaning wand. Why a bidet, you ask? Effectively, respectfully, we expect Blothar may use one.”
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Watch the total episode of Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, in addition to Heavy ipromiseyoumedia‘s authentic interview with Blöthar the Berserker, beneath.
